Look Upon This Picture Hamlet cannot understand what his mother could possibly see in his uncle Claudius.

Posted Yesterday • The Copy Book

Metaphors Rewrite these sentences, substituting each metaphor with another of similar meaning.

Posted Yesterday

Vocabulary Compose sentences to illustrate the meaning of these words.

Posted Yesterday • Think and Speak

Music Video Henry Purcell: Miserere Mei

Posted January 26

Outbreak John Galsworthy shared his unease at the rise of two competing forms of national speech.

Posted January 26 • The Copy Book

Verbs and Nouns Separate these words into two groups, nouns, and nouns that are also verbs. Which one’s the odd-one-out?

Posted January 26 • Think and Speak

The Peacock Throne The dazzling throne of the Mughal Emperors has vanished from history, but not before Abdul Hamid Lahori had seen it.

Posted January 25 • The Copy Book

Description Think of three different kinds of clock or bag, and write sentences to distinguish them.

Posted January 24 • Think and Speak

Hat Think of three different kinds of clock or bag, and write sentences to distinguish them.

Posted January 24 • Think and Speak

Rich Harmony John Galsworthy urges the English to love their language as they love their country.

Posted January 23 • The Copy Book

Music Video William Hurlstone, The Magic Mirror Suite: VI. Interlude

Posted January 23

Expression Compare these five ways of saying the same thing, and say what each one adds.

Posted January 22 • Think and Speak

Anything to Declare? When the residents of Miramont Place in Pimlico declare independence, they mean to be taken seriously.

Posted January 22

Servants of the People A US Congressman tells the House why they mustn’t censor the press.

Posted January 22 • The Copy Book

How the Cobra Got His Spectacles John Wood shares the wonder of the Indian cobra’s hood, in science and in myth.

Posted January 21 • The Copy Book

Naughty Eppie Silas Marner has to harden his heart and teach little Eppie a lesson she will remember.

Posted January 20 • The Copy Book

Music Video Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Othello, Op. 79: II. Children’s Intermezzo

Posted January 20

A European Fraud Dostoevsky had to break it to Moscow’s students that ordinary Russians found their brand of politics patronising.

Posted January 19 • The Copy Book

Pronunciation Suggest words in which the letter ‘o’ is pronounced as it is in ‘comely’.

Posted January 18 • Think and Speak

Tea Make as many words as you can using the letters of one nine-letter word. Can you beat our score?

Posted January 17 • Think and Speak